July 2
Garrett's 16th birthday (yes, I am old..I have another driver in the house) For the past 6 months he has had learners permit, but as of today he can officially get his drivers license. BUT, my child is not home this week, so he will have to wait. Where is he, you might ask? He is at NYLT. Okay, next week he will get it. Wrong. We will be out of town, so he will have to wait until after the first day of class. Yes I am going to make him take the big yellow taxi to school. I know, I am a mean mom.
I was called as the girl's camp assistant director so I had a meeting about every week until camp (which is coming up in a min...talking about it).
July 18
Parker's birthday - he is now officially a teenager, 13. All this kid wanted for his birthday was an iPod Touch. Not just any iPod touch, no he wanted a 32 or 64gb. With empahsis on the 64. HAHAHA, he was up in the night. I had a problem with getting 8 gb when I knew for a little bit more I could get a 32gb. I did some searching and found Walmart.com and Target.com sold them and they were $50 less than the store. But no, stores do not match .com prices. So with this in mind I started searching for an iPod touch on KSL and Craigslist (a few weeks prior we bought Garrett an iPod touch off of KSL and had good results with the way the transaction took place - I have used KSL many times prior to this as well). Can you see where this story is going, I will spare all the in between, but to make a long story short, we used Craigslist. We got what we wanted, but the guy who sold us the iPod tried to scam us. There were lessons we learned, but I think I will save this for another post.
July 18
Almost forgot this. I had to come back and insert this, how could I forget about an 8 hour day of grocery shopping. LOTS.OF.FUN. Costco, Winco, Sams Club, Target, and then Walmart. Yes, it was that much fun. Needless to say, I did not want to step into another grocery store for awhile. I actually did not step into a grocery store until today. I made Brent go to the store if we needed something.
July 19
Both Garrett and Parker leave for camp. Parker - Scout camp, Garrett - High Adventure. So guess what this meant. Madi was stuck delivering papers. She did get help though. We picked up a friend every morning and the two of them delivered the papers together. It was fun to watch them interact with each other. It was also fun to watch the enthusiasm at the beginning of the week turn to "I'm tired." Good times.
July 26 - 29
Girls Camp for me. It was in Idaho in Rupert at Sunrise P Ranch. Garrett had told me about this place and how much fun it was. It was awesome to be able to share this time with the girls in our ward and their leaders. Monday when I left, I left my kids home alone. Brent left about an hour before me to head to the airport for Los Angeles. I had made arrangements for the kids to go with Brent's mom, but that was still a few hours away. But still, when I kissed my kids goodbye, I had tears in my eyes. I have never been away from my kids for that many days. But I know my prayer was answered, the kids were taken care of (not that I didn't know that already) but I felt like a mom to each of the girls up there. They helped make that transition much easier. It was also fun playing "Uno" late at night as well with the other leaders. Being able to hear the girls share their testimonies and watch their testimonies grow over the few days we were there was a great experience as well. The girls in the ward made the experience worth while. Everyday, we chose a few girls to help with cleanup, not only did those girls willingly help, but many other girls would come, on their own, and ask what they could do to help. If you told them nothing they seemed quite devastated, so we would find something they could help.
August 2 - 6 (I know this is not part of July - but close enough)
I had a class. One week only. 8am-4pm. This is what it is going to feel like when I finally work full time. I took this class for one main reason, it gave me 3 credit hours by the end of the week. More classes should do this (if they could) one week class, a very intense class at that. Not only did I go to class, but I would come home and do homework until at least 1 am, a few night 2am. It was not that it was hard, but with cramming in a whole semester class into one week, the homework is piled on. In this class we sang children's songs, played the recorder, did art projects, colored, learned about artists, played instruments, danced. I am being quite serious. The class was an education class - Creative Processes. It was an awesome class, intense, but fun.
August (yes, another August date) 7
Took Garrett to NYLT to help staff. Oh, did I mention it is in Idaho. So this Saturday we will make the trek back up there to get him.
Next week - Sequim and Seattle, come back and the following week - start school. Where did the summer go?
3 comments:
What a month! I also loved camp and think you ladies did a great job with it... of course UNO was awesome... and I'm still tired from the creative processes class I took about 10 years ago! I loved it but feel totally drained when I remember it :)
I said something to a kid at church about how fast the summer went and she said, 'no, it didn't'. Oh,yeah, I forget that time doesn't speed by when you're 11. It seems like just last week they got out of school. Crazy!
Yikes! You have been busy! Hopefully life will settle down a little for you at some point. :)
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